With Samuel Basallo locked up, can O's now make a run at Gunnar?

O's seem optimistic, hopeful about additional contract extensions

BALTIMORE – O’s executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias has said numerous times he prefers not to discuss whether he has had any contract extension talks with players and their agents.

And thus the Samuel Basallo contract news did kind of come out of left field. But the O’s have locked up their 21-year-old prospect catcher for eight years…